How to implement incremental search on a list

Question

I want to implement incremental search on a list of strings. Consider I have an array containing which contains the strings store,state,stamp,crawl,crow. My application has a te

Answer 1

Instead of an array of strings you could use a generic collection. This way you can use the FindAll method with a delegate to search through the items.

string searchString = "s";
List sl = new List();
sl.Add("store");
sl.Add("state");
sl.Add("stamp");
sl.Add("crawl");
sl.Add("crow");
List searchResults = sl.FindAll(delegate(string match) 
                                                { 
                                                    return   match.StartsWith(searchString, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase); 
                                                });